Except for the ones that we’ll learn were fired by Trump for being traitors, of course. The real team will also be working to fight back against them.
Second ('Third') Trump Presidency Thread
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Except for the ones that we’ll learn were fired by Trump for being traitors, of course. The real team will also be working to fight back against them.
No - They had 8 years to learn who to trust and specifically the past 3-4 years was a process of staffing the current admin. Why do you think the firings and replacements have happened so quickly. they knew they won in 2020 and without easier forms of legalized cheating they knew theyd win in 2024. This time they were ready.
acesfull86
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“Chasing the shiny object” - aka pointing out that 2+2=4 and being told by BowTiedRanger than it’s me who’s wrong
Sorry, I’m bringing up Trump’s trade deficit ignorance every single time he and MAGA try to tell us it’s an issue
Yes - Trump doesn't understand economics 101. Its well above him!
The fact that you truly believe he is being 'ignorant' or 'odesn't understand' is comical.
Bookmark them all - When Vance is leading a roaring economy and median income raises all of these arguments will be amusing.
chop2chip
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MVP caliber post. When we revisit tariff impacts in 2030, we’ll look back on this like Pedro’s 1999 season.
Three questions:
1) What reason do I, an American paying more for the things I need to buy, have for concerning myself with percentages of national GDP?
2) How does this make other countries pay their fair share? The nation of Canada is not paying a tax, companies that supppy United States with goods and services are the ones paying more.
3) If we make so much money from tariffs that it eliminates the need for an income tax, what happens when the promised shift to domestic production occurs? Do we then re-implement income taxes or just hope companies will pay higher and higher tariffs to offset the lost tax revenue so we can have an Army?
1) Because this is a game of 'leverage' and our leverage far exceeds Canada/Mexico meaning they will bend and the resulting outcome will be better for AMericans.
2) Countries are able to allocate their tax dollars to social causes because big bad US protects them all. WE ARE THE INTERNATIONAL ORDER and there is a price for htat.
3) Countries will never want to stop selling to the US so tariff inflows will never stop. But, in your scenario, which is what I want more than anything, Americans would have better/high paying jobs resulting in less 'needs' from the government. And income tax is one 'revenue' source for the governemnt. All different types of taxes that drive the governemnts budget.
Canadian opposition party seems worried about hte rise in fentanyl in their country.
But you guys know better....
acesfull86
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Show me one person in MAGA world who acknowledged last week that the Saudi deal increased our trade deficit. Doesn’t even have to be Trump. And they don’t have to say it’s a bad deal or that we shouldn’t have done it. Just looking for an acknowledgment.
It sure would be unfortunate if a few ICE trucks showed up there, wouldn't it?
There's something else going on and that Trump isn't telling us.
But Trump has created a US golden age and American companies lowered the prices of domestic goods somehow. So which American consumers will be buying the artificially more expensive foreign products they want to sell?